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Deuteronomy 22:29-30
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Deuteronomy 22:29-30
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29 he must pay the girl’s father 20 ounces of silver.[a] And the girl will become the man’s wife, because he used her for sexual sin. He cannot divorce her all his life.
30 “A man must not bring shame to his father by marrying his father’s wife.
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- Deuteronomy 22:29 20 ounces of silver This money became the dowry, the money a man paid to a woman’s father to seal the marriage agreement. Often the father saved this money to take care of the woman if something happened to her husband.
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